Opposition National Democratic Congress strongman, Dela Coffie has once again taken a dig at his party for its abysmal and poor showing in the just ended Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election, saying there is more to election strategy and political intelligence gathering than mere sloganeering and Bobolibobo.
‘’We saw it coming, didn’t we? At least some of us have made the point time and again that there is more to election strategy and political intelligence gathering than mere sloganeering and “Bobolibobo.” Yes, political strategy is not not a walk in the park or picking flowers in a garden. Fellas don’t get it and they will never do’’ he wrote on his Facebook page Thursday, January 31, 2019.
The ruling NPP retained the Ayawaso West Wuogon Parliamentary seat in yesterday’s by-election with 12,041 votes representing 68. 95 percent of the votes cast.
The NDC came second with 5, 341 votes representing 30.37 percent, while the PPP and LPG got 103 and 17 votes representing 0.58 and 0.10 percent respectively.
According to him, the NDC must blame itself for the loss in the election, explaining that while the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) adopted a submarine approach to the campaign, scheming on the grounds in the constituency, the entire NDC and its leadership were on radio rubble-rousing.
‘’Let the record show that even as at yesterday while the NPP bigshots were on the ground scheming, the entire Functional Executive Committee members of the NDC led by the National Chairman were on radio rabble-rousing. The result is what we witnessed today’’ he added.
See his full statement write-up below.
Well Well Well, We saw it coming, didn’t we? At least some of us have made the point time and again that there is more to election strategy and political intelligence gathering than mere sloganeering and “Bobolibobo.” Yes, political strategy is not not a walk in the park or picking flowers in a garden. Fellas don’t get it and they will never do.
Events at Ayawaso West Wagon earlier today and subsequent verbal withdrawal from the process by the NDC is a clear leadership failure.
Leadership has failed the NDC and left the party badly exposed.
The NDC went into this elections without any contingency measures to deal with the excesses associated with such exercise. There was no clear cut security readiness and preparedness for this election.
Let the record show that even as at yesterday while the NPP bigshots were on the ground scheming, the entire Functional Executive Committee members of the NDC led by the National Chairman were on radio rabble-rousing. The result is what we witnessed today.
The NDC leadership lacks the tradition of the organization of intelligence gathering and strategies. Most people that have common sense and a brain knows the dynamics of by-elections and Ayawaso West Wagon is no exception. But NDC leaders clearly went into a gun battle wielding bread knife, and by simply allowing intimidation to force a whole NDC with it’s revolutionary background to withdraw from this by-elections tells you the party is not ready to win any future elections in Ghana.
The NPP on the other has proven that they have the capacity to win any elections by every means possible.
And just so you know, this is just a dress reharsal for 2020. We must as well boycott 2020 too in advance and continue to dance to “Bobolibobo.”
God save us all…”
Source: BestNewsGH.com